Quest of the Folk

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Argues that the popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false. This title shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. It examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten.Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia Ian
McKay ... Seawinds, the commercial project of Vicki Crowe, a graduate of the
New York School of Interior Design and a former staff member of American Home
magazine. ... The Halifax Christmas craft shows a distant descendants of Mary
Blacka#39;s aCraftsmen at Worka exhibitions a began in 1972 with a small ten-person
effort atanbsp;...

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Quest of the Folk

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Ian McKay

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP - 2014-05-14

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